ESPN announces new shows and an overhauled lineup in the wake of its recent layoffs

Mike Greenberg and Mike
Golic will see their 17-year run on "Mike & Mike"
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Some of ESPN's recent, highly publicized layoffs — about 100
employees, including dozens of on-air personalities — were part
of an effort to reshuffle its daytime TV lineup and
save its flagship program, "SportsCenter."

We now know more about what the new daytime ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN
Radio schedules will look like, and they include a pair of new
shows.

On Tuesday, ESPN announced several changes to its lineups, the
most notable being the end of ESPN Radio's "Mike & Mike,"
which has been on the air for 17 years and is often cited as the
show that laid the groundwork for the national sports radio we
hear today.

Mike Greenberg will move to a long-rumored new show on ESPN
airing weekdays from 7 to 10 a.m. While we don't know the name of
that show or many details, it's expected to be something more
like "Good Morning America" or "Live with Kelly" — a traditional
morning talk show, with some traditional "SportsCenter" elements
sprinkled in.

According to ESPN, the new show will have "several full-time
cohosts and a rotation of various guests and expert
contributors."

Meanwhile, Mike Golic will continue the ESPN Radio show with a
new cohost, Trey Wingo. Both of them received multiyear
extensions in the deal. That show will initially be simulcast on
ESPN2, as "Mike & Mike" is now, before eventually moving to
ESPNU. Mike Golic Jr. will also be a regular cohost for the first
hour of the show.

The other new show is an unnamed, hour-long talk show hosted by
Bomani Jones and Pablo Torre airing at noon on ESPN. Jones is a
cohost of "Highly Questionable," which is expected to announce a
new cohost. Torre is a regular guest on "Around the Horn" and a
columnist for ESPN the Magazine.